Are you cleaning your kitchen sink enough? If not, it could be making you sick as pros warn it's dirtier than your toilet

A kitchen sink beneath a window with green cabinets and bee patterned tea towel.

Cleaning a kitchen regularly prevents mold and food contamination. Because of this, most of us are strict about wiping down our counters, stoves, and cutting boards to prevent cross contamination of germs, but what about our sinks?

Given that we regularly use soap in our sinks and don’t use them to cut and prepare food, it might not seem like too big of a deal to put off cleaning a kitchen sink. However, cleaners are warning neglecting this space could be the biggest causes of illness at home as they are dirtier than toilets.